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One visual language, carried across the whole week.


A wedding is not one invitation. It is a save the date, a film, a printed suite, a site your guests live in for three months, and the pieces on the night. We draw them as one thing, so they look like one thing.

What you can commission

Priced by the number of events, because that is what a celebration is. There is no bundle — a second occasion is a second site. Sections like the guest list, your story and an illustrated scene are priced separately on the house page.

The night of the garden

ياسمين و كريم

Yasmine & Kareem

Friday 14 May 2027

Shown: Yasmine & Kareem — Teal

One event

One evening on its own address — bilingual, with your date, venue and map, calendar links, a countdown and a share card built for WhatsApp.

60,000EGPper event

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A house with a courtyard

ملك و زياد

Malak & Ziad

Friday 24 September 2027

Shown: Malak & Ziad — Oxblood

Two events

The contract and the wedding, each on its own address, drawn as a pair so they read as one family.

120,000EGP

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A small room, early evening

فريدة و سيف

Farida & Seif

Friday 5 March 2027

Shown: Farida & Seif — Night

Three events

The full celebration — contract, henna and wedding — three addresses, three dates, drawn as one family.

180,000EGP

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How a commission runs

Four steps, and the weeks each one takes. We would rather you knew now than found out later.

  1. 1

    Day one

    You write to us

    A few questions, one page. We answer within one working day, by name.

  2. 2

    Week one

    We talk, and you see the stocks

    A call, or an hour in Cairo. Once printed pieces exist you will hold them before you commit to anything; until then we will show you the stocks and finishes we intend to use and name the press.

  3. 3

    Weeks two to four

    We draw

    A design board first: palette, stocks, finishes. Then the site and the pieces, with the one round of visual changes every commission carries.

  4. 4

    Weeks four to six

    You approve the proof, then it goes live

    A full proof of the site, on its own private link, before anybody outside the two families sees it. Nothing goes live until you have said yes to it.

Case study

Our own wedding sites — a maroon night and a cream garden — are live now, carrying real guests toward two celebrations in 2027. They are the reason this atelier exists.

A gold lace mandala turning slowly on deep burgundy, with the couple’s names at its centre.
A lace mandala drawn from eight motifs, none of them stock — the ornament families expect on an Egyptian invitation, redrawn so it could turn.
The invitation switching from English to Arabic, the layout flipping right to left.
One tap and the whole invitation changes language — the type, the numerals, the direction of the page, and the words inside the artwork.

These are recordings — the real invitations are live for celebrations still to come, so we do not send strangers to their doors. Open the demo instead: it is one of them, playable, with the guest list taken out.

Open a live invitation

Maison Dawoud is a small house in Cairo. One person answers your messages, and the same person draws.

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